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From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple's Pricing, IIx question
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Date: 20 Mar 89 17:28:08 GMT
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In article <1080@esquire.UUCP> sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) writes:
>In article <919@fornax.UUCP> mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes:
>>
>> [about the $2000 Apple charges for IIx upgrades]
>
>Why not just skip the wimpy II -> IIx upgrade (you only get a 10-15%
>speedup, and no, the PMMU is not currently used at all by MacOS, only
>AU/X) and go for a 3rd party 33MHz 68030 upgrade.  It'll probably
>cost you less and you'll blow away anything Apple now offers.

I wish!  (Boy do I wish!)  I would love to get the Daystar board, but I don't
have a spare $7000.  That's right.  Seven grand.  Plus tax.  And that's and
add on, not a replacement motherboard.

So $2000 isn't all *that* bad, considering how much just the parts cost.
Multi-layer circuit boards stuffed full of parts are not cheap.

What is bad is the basic design... I do hate to say that, but 2 wait states
and no cache!  Shame on you, Apple.  You should have known better.
 
 
Brian McElhinney
mce@tc.fluke.com